Daily Intention Thread : "Today, I am... + POSITIVE AFFIRMATION"

Well done for still posting on here, @Ammar2

If you've already done this, apologies, but have you journalled lately your reasons for quitting? Solid reasons, and your goals. A bit of an action plan for when tempted.

I'm currently reading a book called Every Man's Battle. It's a Christian book, so I'm not sure how you'd feel about reading it. The practical principles would apply though: It talks a lot about bouncing our eyes from sensual images, even starving our eyes. By doing so we remove the fuel for the fire in our minds. It's kinda obvious and maybe you already do this, but if not, it really helps. I'm in the middle of the book now, and they've just started talking about training the mind: We've gotta train our eyes first, then, since the mind can conjure up all sorts of things by itself, and memories etc, we then need to train our mind. Basically it's training it to "police" itself -> building a filter for what are allowed thoughts and what thoughts are not allowed.

Worth looking at

 

Thank you! I do plan to read books once I'm out of the withdrawal phase. Will check that one out!

 

Today, I am grateful to have made it another day and reiterate that this journey is all about the present, dealing with my emotions and my urges one step at a time.

 

Today I am lucky to escape a slippery slope of porn. I clicked on something objectionable and had a decision to make. It was difficult to turn away from the dirt but I’m so glad I did.

 

Well done man! It's the little decisions that add up am I right?

 

Today I will choose to work through my pain, doubt, and fear instead of turning to Porn to escape.

 

Yes! You are fully correct. The seemingly little fleeting thoughts, the small decisions, the decisions that no one else knows about but ourselves and our God / Higher Power, these are what 'maketh the man'. Get control of this and we control our life. Control our thougts and we determine our misery or our joy.

 

Today I will not PMO not because of the desire to achieve an arbitrary streak, but because it's the right thing to do.